268 Arrival at Beacon Hill. [May, isee. 



encampment. His sled was found to be very heavily loaded; for, 

 besides his household goods, it had on it two cumbrous ki-a frames, 

 one of which was made entirely from a boat of the Franklin Expedi- 

 tion, and the sledge itself from a mast of Captain Ross's " Victory." 

 In the midst of a howling storm, he was promptly supplied with 

 an armful of took-too meat. The next day, in company with Nuker- 

 zlioo and his family, he again left Hall for a time. 



On the 23d, the journey down the North Pole Lake was made 

 swiftly by the use of a tent for a sail to the sledges, assisting the poor 

 hungry dogs; the sled itself sometimes getting in advance of them. 

 Ebierbing and She-mik-shoo traveled beside the sledge to guide it. 

 Durino- the evening-, from three and a half to four miles an hour were 

 made by sail only, and at fifteen minutes past 8 a. m. of the 24th, Hall 

 revisited his boat Sylvia and his stores deposited at the base of Beacon 

 Hill, March 31st, and to the record he had then placed on the Sylvia on 

 leaving this point, he now added an inscription summing up the obstacles 

 met witli on the journey and his plans for renewing it. He had the satis- 

 faction to find that Ou-e-la had been faithful to his promise of that 

 date, to take from the hill the half-barrel containing the records, and 

 I)rotect them from any strange Innuits. It seemed plain from the 

 snow-tracks that some of Ou-e-la's friends had been recently at the hill, 

 ;iii<1 Ar-tiiou went off to find him. 



'J he notes of the 25th read thus : 



To (lay my King William party was ended, for the present at least. This, 

 of coiiise, wan in correspondence to the natural course of i)assiug events. Our 

 wjjaration wa.s, however, for this reason : 1 desire to remain here a few days, 

 and tiy and do .some writing, recounting the im])ortaut mattm- 1 have gained 

 of the I'clly iJay natives relative to Sir John Franklin's Ex]H'<lition, Ebier- 

 bing, Too-koo-li-too, Mam-mark, and her little son remaining here with me. On 



